St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-09
THE LATEST NEWS.
Events of Importance at Home
and Abroad.

and Abroad.
The trial has begun in Chicago Of Frank
sozerheld, Henry Butler, Joseph Reed, AL
bert Reeves and Louis Stein, young men ar
rested in February last, charged with selling
bogus railway tickets. The men carried on
operations from a barber shop, where the
police found every possible device for coun-
terteiting tickets. 1t is estimated that their
profits IN the last three years amounted to
sl5O,OVO Two Of the men have turned
States evidence.
Twenty inmates of boarding house in
Chicago were chlOroformed and robbed the
other night. The robbers entered the rooms
by means Of pinchers and false keys, and,
after chloroforming the sleepers, robbed
them. The victims were mostly street-car
drivers and conductors, and few of them
awoke in time the next morning. Sev-
eral hundred dollars were secured by the
robbers.
The people of Albuquerque, n. M, and
its vicinity have organized vigilance com
mlttee to rid the county of norse-stealers,
train wreckers and murderers who have
been committing outrages there for several
months
The family of Dr. T. Buck, in st. Louis
were awakened the other night by terrific
explosion, which nearly wrecked the house,
doing damage to the extent of $1,000. An
examination showed that dynamite bomb
had been placed on the sill of the basement
doorway and exploded.
Five Navajo Indians visited h4e trading
post Of A NJ. Barton, in Utah. on June Is,
killed Barton and plundered his store. The
wife and family of the murdered man were
not molested.
DR.. Edward Duggan a prominent physi-
clan of Brooklyn. was shot dead on his door
step by George Weidler. The latter, when
arrested, refused to say why he shot the
doctor, but rumor points to his sister
in connection with the affair. Weidler is
twenty-five years of age and married. The
doctor was reputed to be wealthy. He leaves
two sons and daughter.
At North Industry in Stark county, O.,
Conrad Doll, aged forty-tiv years, killed his
wife and stepson with hatchet and then fed.
| He married the woman six months ago.
The provocation for the crime was the find
! ing of compromising letter to his wife from
another man.
Alfred Blunt, wife murderer, has been
hanged in ST. Louis.
The period of grace granted DR.. McGlynn,
| of New York, is about to expire, and he has
made no sign of submission. 1t is stated that
the Pope will, without further delay, for
| mally excOmmunicate him.
Mgr. Persico and Mgr Gualdi have left for
Ireland on the mission intrusted to them by
the Pope. They are instructed to make per-
sonal observations and to prepare report on
the political and social position of the Irish.
Father Locatelli, who recently came to
Rome from the Soudan. has started on his
return to that country. He will endeavor to
effect the release of the missionaries who are
now held as prisoners in Khartoum.
Mr.. George Vanderbilt, having received
urgent cable dispatches, has started for Liv-
erpool, en- route for New York.
The Marquis of Harrington, in speech at
Manchester, referred to home rule for
Ireland as being, for time at least, decided
against. He protested against the minority
| in Parliament being allowed to further pre-
vent legislation, especially denouncing that
section of the minority directly associated
with a foreign conspiracy aiming at the
establishment of an Irish republic. Refer
| ring to Mr.. Gladstone's offer for conference,
Lord Harrington said that the time had not
arrived for reunion of the Liberal party.
He demanded a general basis of agreement
before undertaking negotiations. Any agree
| ment he added, must be open to the knowl-
edge of the Conservatives, who had been
loyal to the Unionists and deserved their
confidence in return. Lord Harrington said:
1.-THE Unionists cannot consider the treat
ment of Ulster and the question of Irish
representation in the Imperial Parliament as
matters of mere detail, as Mr.. Gladstone ap-
pears to do. Until we know where we stand
On these questions further negotiations will
be futile
The French Senate discussed the report of
the committee on consumption OF spirits.
M. Claude said that the committee had come
TO the conclusion that the drinkamg of spirits
In France had reached such height as to be
social danger. Alcohol was essentially a
dutiable article, and it behooved the state to
prevent its excessive consumption, at the
same time securing the utmost profit to the
treasury by the suppression of adulteration
and other frauds. M. Rouher approved the
committees report. He said the govern
ment would prosecute fraud wherever dis
covered and that the revenue collectors
would be instructed to take vigorous action
against imposition.
Near Longview, Tex, Frank Mcintyre,
colored, aged sixteen years, was carelessly
handling his gun when it went off, and the
load blew off half the head of an infant SIS
ter in her mothers lap and wounded the
mother in the breast. The youths father
had died suddenly the day before.
While young man and woman-the lat
ter Miss Rosenthal-were riding in a
wagon alongside the Atlantic Coast railroad,
near Raleigh, N. c., the horse became un-
manageable and backed upon the track be-
fore an advancing train. The young man
Jumped out, to better control the horse, and
the young woman jumped out on the side
next the track and was caught and killed by
the train.
The entire plant of the Chicago, Milwau-